Mango Mousse Cake

1) Mangoes were in season. 

2) I love Mango Mousse Cake. 

3) I was stressed from work.

 These 3 factors drove me insane enough to bake last night despite returning home late from work. I started out baking several years back with a Chocolate Banana Cake and I fell in love with baking layered cakes. I've stopped baking them since I moved out of my mum's when I got married. 

Yesterday, I decided to recreate a Mango Mousse Cake that was mango-er... one that would be close to the Bakerzin one that I adore. This is pretty close. in flavour... though the texture is slightly different. The mousse isn't as firm as that of Bakerzin but it's still good. 

This cake takes about 3 - 4 hours to bake and I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Rilakuma Swiss Roll [Peach] (Cartoon/Printed Swiss Roll)

Cartoon/Printed Swiss Rolls are just so adorable and pretty much irresistible! Here's the Rilakuma Gwen, Sharron and I baked together at Gwen's place. This recipe was taken from the Miss Junko Book of Swiss Rolls. This Rilakuma Swiss Roll (Peach) was baked for lil' Joy whose birthday was approaching and sure enough, she loved it! It's one of those moments that makes baking for loved ones all worthwhile. 

I love this recipe for swiss roll as it's so soft and tastes really good. 

I'd rank this recipe as a difficulty level 3 out of 5 and it takes about an hour (excluding chilling) to prepare.

Mango Petals (Petal Cake Tutorial)

So it was my sister's birthday earlier this month as I asked her if she wanted a cake. She said yes only a day before the celebrations so I thought of this cake design that I've been dying to try for ages. I took up the personal challenge to work out a rainbow schemed Mango Petals cake for her. This petal cake idea has been trending in many online websites/pages and I'm sure glad I gave it a shot! It's a pretty simple method but it requires a fair bit of patience. 

I took about 3 hours in all to complete it and I'd rate it a difficulty level 4 out of 5 for it. (:

This tutorial also consist of a Time with Cynthia video tutorial whereby I show you how the petals can be achieved.

Mango Temptation

I was working on the Chantilly Chocolat when I decided to experiment with something new. Inspired from many of the cookbooks I have, I decided to do a mousse-type cake combined with a soft fluffy sponge and a tangy mango topping. So with some experimentation, I present to you my Mango Temptation! 

This cake is so much fun to bake and of course, being the mango addict I am, how am I to pass up on a lovely cake like this? 

This takes about 2 hours to bake and assemble, excluding time for the mango topping to set towards the end. I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Chantilly Chocolat

This Chantilly Chocolat was baked for a friend of a friend's birthday. Am really glad that the cake was well received. This cake combines the best of a soft fluffy sponge cake, chocolate ganache and Chantily Cream.

This cake takes bout 2 hours in all to bake and assemble and I'd rate it at a difficulty of 3 out of 5.

This is how the cake is when it's cut. Beautiful isn't it? Click on to find out how you can bake this cake. 

No Machine Whisk Earl Grey Chiffon Cake

So instead of the usual Fluffy Pandan Chiffon Cake that I usually bake, I decided to try an Earl Grey Chiffon Cake. Being lazy to bring out the machine whisk, I decided to use this tool that I've had for some time that I to bake this No Machine Whisk Earl Grey Chiffon Cake. 

Yes, you got me right. NO MACHINE WHISK. This recipe and method uses a special tool. Click on to read more! 

This recipe is relatively manageable and I'd rate it a 3 out of 5 for difficulty and it should take about 1 h 15 mins in all to prepare and bake. 

Strawberry Roll 草莓卷

I was having this huge urge to bake but I had no eggs at home as I've used up my entire supply this week! I was brainstorming for all sorts of stuff that didn't quite need eggs. Just then, I received a text from dearest Sharron! She asked if I could help her bake a Swiss Roll for her girls.. and so I thought, why not? She delivered the eggs to me and I started baking the cake. 

This cake is similar to the Ribbon Swiss Roll I did but just slightly thinner. This cake is so fluffy and soft that it's kinda unimaginable that it was baked without any of those cake stabalisers/improvers that I dread and will not use. So this cake is relatively simple to bake and it takes slightly less than an hour in all to bake.